Wesley J. Smith

Assisted suicide advocates, when they are not striving to word engineer through use of the gooey euphemism “physician assisted death (PAD)”—which, alas, has been picked up by some professional journal authors—use scare tactics about unrelievable pain to sell the agenda. Well . . . . Continue Reading »

A nurse in the UK has been convicted of murdering four frail elderly patients with overdoses of insulin. From the story:Colin Norris, 32, believed he could kill with impunity, claiming four “frail and helpless” victims within six months by injecting them with lethal doses of insulin.He . . . . Continue Reading »

This is a nice profile of Denise Fuastman, who cured diabetic mice with a combination of substances, including spleen stem cells. As the story notes, she was severely criticized, but look at the nonsense reason the paper gives for those attacks:In 2001, Faustman said it was possible to cure type 1 . . . . Continue Reading »

Natural selection in action: Zebra learns a new survival mechanism that will be passed down the . . . . Continue Reading »

When I began writing my book on the animal rights movement, I believed that there was the “mainstream” movement—if that term is applicable to any ideology as radical as animal rights—and extremists who were violent and dangerous. And I puzzled at the generally muted or . . . . Continue Reading »

Gee, I wonder why? From the story:Nearly 70 percent of Americans believe traditional journalism is out of touch, and nearly half are turning to the Internet to get their news, according to a new survey. While most people think journalism is important to the quality of life, 64 percent are . . . . Continue Reading »

While “the scientists” have groused about the Bush policy as interfering with ESCR advances, the real hindrance in the field have been the patents claimed by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, based on James Thomson’s original work. As I wrote previously here and here, those . . . . Continue Reading »

In the last debate between Senators Obama and Clinton, the candidates were asked what their greatest mistake had been. Clinton went to her Iraq vote but Obama said it was his agreeing to the federal law that tried to save Terri Schiavo’s life. He stated:I think professionally, the biggest . . . . Continue Reading »

What passes for health care these days in the UK keeps going from bad to worse. The latest bad news is a surge in deaths caused by hospital acquired infection. From The Guardian story:A 72% increase in deaths linked to the hospital superbug Clostridium difficile was disclosed yesterday by the Office . . . . Continue Reading »

The Humane Society has outed itself as indifferent to human welfare. When the HSUS revealed abuses by a meat packer, leading to a massive meat recall, many applauded. But apparently, the HSUS kept the news of animal abuse and downer cows entering the food chain to themselves for months. From the . . . . Continue Reading »